III.—The Worship of Demons.

When Almighty God, to beautify the nature of the world, willed that that earth should be visited by angels, when they were sent down they despised His laws.  Such was the beauty of women, that it turned them aside; so that, being contaminated, they could not return to heaven.  Rebels from God, they uttered words against Him.  Then the Highest uttered His judgment against them; and from their seed giants are said to have been born.  By them arts were made known in the earth, and they taught the dyeing of wool, and everything which is done; and to them, when they died, men erected images.  But the Almighty, because they were of an evil seed, did not approve that, when dead, they should be brought back from death.  Whence wandering they now subvert many bodies, and it is such as these especially that ye this day worship and pray to as gods.

III.---CULTURA DAEMONUM.

0203B Cum Deus omnipotens, exornaret mundi naturam, Visitari voluit terram ab Angelis istam, Legitima cujus spreverunt illi dimissi: Tanta fuit forma feminarum quae flecteret illos, 0204A Ut coinquinati non possent coelo redire. Rebelles ex illo contra Deum verba misere. Altissimus inde sententiam misit in illos; De semine quorum gigantes nati feruntur. Ab ipsis in terra artes prolatae fuerunt; Et tingere lanas docuerunt, et quaecumque geruntur. Mortales et illis mortuis simulacra ponebant. Omnipotens autem, quod essent de semine pravo, Non censuit illos recipi defunctos e morte. Unde modo vagi subvertunt corpora multa: Maxime quos hodie colitis deos et oratis.